Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

On Wednesday morning, jurors filed into a Charleston, South Carolina, courtroom to hear opening statements in the trial of Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old charged with federal hate crimes after the massacre last year at a historic church just a mile from the courthouse. Prosecutors outlined the shooting in brutal detail, saying Roof fired dozens of rounds, shooting the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the church's pastor, "over and over again."

More than a year after the shooting, Roof is in court for the first of two trials. (He has also been charged with murder in state court, and faces trial on that next year.) Authorities say Roof confessed to the killings of nine black...

Related "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev" Articles

On Wednesday morning, jurors filed into a Charleston, South Carolina, courtroom to hear opening statements in the trial of Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old charged with federal hate crimes after the massacre last year at a historic church just a mile from the...

Tamerlan Tsarnaev passed the U.S. citizenship test and denied terrorism links months before he and his brother detonated two bombs that killed three people at the Boston Marathon finish line.
The details come from heavily redacted Department of...

A federal judge has rejected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's bid for a new trial and ordered him to pay victims of the deadly attack more than $101 million in restitution.
The restitution order issued Friday by Judge George O'Toole Jr. is seen...

A man who loaned a gun used by the Boston Marathon bombers to kill a police officer was sentenced Tuesday to the 17 months he has already served and apologized, saying his actions were "dumb." "I was young, dumb, and thought I could...

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are heading to court to urge a judge to grant him a new trial.
Judge George O'Toole Jr. is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in U.S. District Court, but only on the portion of Tsarnaev's motion...

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) say his trial should have been held outside the city because jurors couldn't avoid widespread outrage over the deadly attack and he deserves a new trial elsewhere.
A...

U.S. prosecutors want Ali Charaf Damache in the worst way.
An Irish resident originally from Algiers, Damache, 50, is accused of using online chat rooms to recruit American women into a would-be terrorist cell operating in this country and Europe.
One...

The lawyer who represented the Boston Marathon bomber has been assigned to the case of the suspected South Carolina church shooter now facing dozens of new charges, including hate crimes.
Court records show David Bruck has been provisionally appointed to...

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will get a chance to break his long silence when a judge formally imposes the death sentence recommended by a jury.
Tsarnaev's sentencing hearing is scheduled for Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston.
...

A college friend of marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced Friday to 3 ½ years in prison after he tearfully apologized to the residents of Boston for impeding the investigation into the 2013 attack while authorities frantically searched...

It's "highly likely" that a police officer who was critically injured in a dramatic gunbattle with the Boston Marathon bombers was struck by friendly fire, a district attorney said Tuesday.
Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan, whose...

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be formally sentenced to death on June 24.
U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. set the date on Thursday.
A jury determined earlier this month that Tsarnaev should get the death penalty in...

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be formally sentenced to death next month after at least 20 victims describe the impact the terror attack had on their lives.
Judge George O'Toole Jr. said during a status conference in federal court...

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's appeal of his death sentence is likely to focus on the judge's refusal to move the trial out of Boston and the prosecution's barrage of heartbreaking testimony from more than a dozen victims of the attack.
While...

At 21, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is about to become the youngest, most notorious inmate on federal death row.
After convicting the Russian immigrant last month in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, a jury on Friday voted to sentence him to death for his role...